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PEAK

LOOKING FORWARD TO LIFE

FACING THE WORLD FOR

THE FIRST TIME

Peak SS-in the Karakoram ANXIETY AND NERVOUSNESS AT

ENCOUNTERING SOCIETY

Mountains, may shed its number

for the dignity of a name now that a party of British mountaineers has come so near to climbing it.

(By A Public Schoolboy)

London. am not so disappointed as FAVING spent six years at would have been if I had

Mount Godwin, Austen, which is the test. only 750 feet lower than Everest, is still better known as K

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“ENGLISHMEN OF ASIA”

now thought that was going

Many peaks in the Himalayas which have been sighted but never.. approached, are known only by numbers or letters awarded to them in the Survey of India. -

my lot to go out into the world make a thousand though I'm Mount Everest is Peak 25, sand and see what can be done about darned sick about it, of course.

Having been at school longer was known as such until Sir earning my daily bread and George Everest gave it his name putting what I have learnt to than the average boy, my next feeling is impatience to get I have heard On reviewing my feelings down to it. about facing the world. I find enough about it second hand, them to a certain extent mixed, and it's now my turn to see but entirely overshadowed by what it's like for myself. those of anxiety and nervous-Moreover. I am rather tired of keeping all the various rules As a fervent admirer of China, the Labe Goldsworthy Lowes I have been imbued with the and regulations without which Dickinson would have agreed both usual "Your school days are the a school cannot be properly run. with M. H. G. Wells's and Lord best you'll ever have, my boy; and trying to evade detection if Winterton's speeches at the China make the most of them." This I break them. Society's dinner held recently in alone leads me to expect some-

Hard Work

London.

thing that is no fun at all. But Furthermore. "schoolboy Twenty-fre years ago

that it does not end there. I have pranks may be all right at eminent man-of-letters anticipated been brought up in the turmoil school, but I have heard enough: them both. He pointed outs of the immediate post-war about other matters to know

that "when I was a child. I did Mr. Wells-that in China East years.. had already met West. -

spake as a child. I understood And as a historian he would

Even schools are not entirely as a child, I thought as a child; have subscribed to Lord Winter unaffected by the financial up-but when I became a man I put

should be

ton's dictum that we

Indeed, called the

ness.

A Start

I am fully prepared to work better acquainted with Chinese heavals which have been a con- away childish things."

stant worry to those past school civilisation and culture.

life All the pre-war social much harder than I ever have Mr. Lowes Dickinson

standards have gone, and even before, and to cut out any plea- Chinese the Englishmen of Asia if I have come from a famous sures that are destructive to

Sir Denison Ross and Sir Wil-

school I cannot walk straight health, such as late nights, etc. The discipline of school life. make an express Treaty of liam Llewellyn also spoke at the into a manager's post and take

to act Friendship and Conciliation dinner, which was meant as a pre-away the best salary as a mat-also, has taught me with the Negus, in 1928 theiminary mobilisation for the Ex-ter of course. I realise to the promptly on orders. and this gist of the Treaty being "reci-hibition of Chinese Art at Burling-full that I have to start from training will be very useful in procal economic relations" ton House in the lafe autumn.

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PITY THE "REDS"

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the bottom, if I am lucky the job which I have been lucky. is complained that this Treaty

enough to reach it.

enough to be offered.

At Once has had no result, as conces

I have heard endless stories sions have been given to every

Analagous to this, I have nation except the Italian; and A Communist journal has been about officers with enviable war As the date for the meeting particularly that while several complaining recently that, owing records, famous cricketers of learnt in the position of respon landed aristocracy walking the after a long time at school, that of the Council of the League foreign missions have been into the lack of efficient "Red" bands, the 1900's and scions of the sibility which has come to me draws near, keener and keener vited to train the Native army, substitutes have to be hired.

The repertoire of most of these streets or selling things on com-it is better to carry out duties as the It mission; and about boys leaving as soon as possible. grows the interest in the battle no invitation has been given to

is confined to patriotic tunes. of words; and greater grows the Italians.

forget and the Another complaint is that is difficult to march with the pro- school without any technical longer they are left the easier exaggerate temptation to

decently, unable to find a job harder to do. even invent picturesque in during the first two years of the per Communistic swagger to "The training except how to behave they are to

that is not a dead end in the I feel that my opinion on a cidents and intrigues which are war large forces were massed British Grenadiers.**

overcrowded labour market. prevalent controversy of the only exciting because they make on the border and cansed great

All this has combined to give day-that of the means to keep bad blood between friends. and anxiety to the Italian garrisons

Your Daily Smile! catas-which only amounted to eight

me the idea that the outside the peace-would not be amiss. may possibly lead to a

There has been

Father's Day and International world is a badly organised I am very keen to be of ser- It is quite according thousand men. trophe. to precedent that when quota-nothing to complain of since Debt Payment Day came and passed rabble and that the only way to vice to my country if she needs tions are made from the views 1916, but the danger was sug-quietly in America Both, octauan succeed is to win a sweepstake me, and to be of use to the fight were more honoured in the breach the gested

In fact, I'm windy about itling forces which help to keep of opposing publicists,

Consolation

international peace By this I Italian side of the case should The dispute would have been than in the observance. be cabled in the words of Signor a minor, and merely local busi-

Even if Sir Malcolm Campbell fails I realise that my task may mean that I am anxious to join Gayda, a

gentleman hitherto ness if Great Britain had not to make 300 miles an hour, all is not not be one long struggle against some Territorial or Reserve unknown, who has seized on taken it up and "mobilised the lost. Hundreds of track drivers will overwhelming odds, as I have force, and to carry on the ex- cellent training which I have this opportunity to push him- League of Nations to oppose keep on trying

painted it, and that there are self by violent tirades into the Italy." This action is hypocri

“Our basiness is picking up." re- exceptions to every rule, but I received in the OTC. And I front of the stage. Nonethe-tical, because Great Britain had less it is useful to know what got all she wanted before themarked one of the prominent waste am purposely schooling myself should like to do some sort of the other side is thinking and League came into existence: Paper collectors in a South London to expect the worst, so that if social service to help those who

park recently but de

by any chance I am surprised are not, perhaps, in such a for-

tunate position as myself. saying: and we can find er- and it is merely an attempt to do

I will only be agreeably so. It is estimated that a fly∙lays] lightenment in a review of the "put the League as a policemen situation by a distinguished son standing guard over the status 30,000,000 eggs, in a lifetime. The I have found this state of The House? of a distinguished father, Luigi quo." It is an insult to com-only consolation is that flies can't mind easy to get into by think Moreover. I am interested in ing every time I go in to bat politics and economics, and I Villari To a wide knowledge pare a country with two thou-

that I will have to return to the have for some time, had an of history he adds an intimate sand years of culture behind it

pavilion after the next ball, so ambition to be a Member “of acquaintance with England and with a barbarons tribe of a mil-

Has Lardship: "What was all that that when I actually do have to Parliament and to take my lion and a half of Amhari, who laughter and noise that I heard last start on the long walk back. I place among the legislators of English ways of thought

After dismissing the more lord it over seven or eight mil evening, Jensen?”

thejlion Gallas and other backward scurrilous writers with remark that Great Britain has peoples, who have two million very small trade interests in slaves. Abyssinia. and that the protec Naturally the inevitable it does not happen again.” tion of the Nile could be easily ference to Japan occurs. Japan arranged, he explains that the defied the Covenant and the frontier between Abyssinia and judgment of the League Italian Somaliland has never snapped her fingers at it and been defined and submits that nothing happened. Why should this is entirely due to the Italy be more polite or consider Negus

An agreement was atc? There is of course.no made and signed in 1908, but question that the whole of the the work of the delimiting Com Manchurian business was mis

Two Indians, Gatjan Singh and mission was hung up on the managed the sort of blunder ground that the Abyssinian that is worse than a crime Mohamed Yusaf, were each bound Government said they were Another point is that Italy over in a bond of $25 to be of good accident happened to a Chinese and shall feel more like turning on some smaller island-some- unable to guarantee the safety does not share the British view behaviour for a period of six woman who was carrying a tin toy back on it and going to live of the Commissioners. This of the League. To the Italian months by Mr. E. L Wynne-Jones a refuse van. The tin was hit by where with a couple of friends. may very well have been true it is merely an alternative at the Kowloon Magistracy this the car and fell on the woman's and a dog Ual Ual was occupied in 1928 instrument of diplomatic proce- morning for fighting in Filkin foot Mr. Kinge stopped the car by some Italian-paid Somali dure that may occasionally be Street, near Austin. Eoad yester- and sent the woman to hospital, but soldiers, to maintain order, as useful. They have no sym-day-

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exekle.

* Fair Warning

Jensen: "Excuse me, my lord, but the cook and I were celebrating our silver wedding!"

His Lordship: "Well, just see that

"FRIENDLY” FIGHT

Two Indians Bound Over

ACCIDENT NOT REPORTED

the country: though I realise that this ambition can only be achieved if I am extremely suc- cessful in business (or if I win a sweepstake) and that it will anyhow, have to wait a long time

$20 Fine Imposed

Finally and this is a reflec- Kinge, of No. 10 Gap Road,tion of my nervousness--if was this morning fined $20 by Mr. civilised life becomes unbear- W. Schofield at the Central Magis able, or the country gets turned tracy for failing to report an acci-

upside down by any event such dent which occurred while he was as the rise to power of wrong- driving car No. 1954 in Robinson headed politicians, then I shail Road on July 23 at 8:15 am

feel shy of facing the world,” Inspector Andrews said that the

...

did not report the accident"-

PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY MEETING IN CANTON

Canton, to-day Two weeks have elapsed since the convening

vincial Assembly. The last meet- the third session of the Pro- ing was held last Wednesday at 9.

presided over by Mr Im Kwok-poi and attended by

all sorts of people trekking with pathy with the British attitude, When charged, the first defen- cattle used the wells, including which is said to regard the dant said that they were only hav high officials; and nobody made Council "as an inspired oracle ing a friendly wrestling match. any objection. The attack on of divine wisdom

and the second defendant stated these troops was therefore

that they were only playing. The A British The final and most compelling Indian constable, stated that both quite unjustified. Commission was appointed to consideration is however that defendants were struggling with delimit British Somaliland, and the population of Italy is grow each other, using both fists and it is asserted that it was some ing by four hundred thousand

legs. remarks made by the British a year, and land must be found Commissioner a day or two for them to work on Italian before he left on the conclusion settlers have done well with the of the work, that made the very uninviting sandy wastes lcpment of the country would members. General Chan Chai- local tribesmen discontented of the low lands, and they would be an excel with the Italian action. This make a garden of the well objection is may also well be true, without watered, soil of the mountain sion of the

where the climate is member compelling us to suppose that ranges,

the remarks were meant to have healthy and invigorating wa

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